ARRIVAL ARRIVES AMID ACCOLADES
Denis Villenueve's SciFi think piece/adventure yarn Arrival will arrive in theaters tomorrow. The film currently sits at Metacritic with an 81 score and from Rotten Tomatoes, the film is certified fresh at 97%. The film did reasonably well in the post T-ride MTFB ratings with a 4.13 rating (out of 5.0) and a #6 ranking from The People's Telluride, a 3.88 and #7 rating/ranking form The Professionals and a 8.01 rating and a #4 rank from The Composite Telluride. The film also continues to flirt in a number of Oscar categories as you have seen here on the periodic FAC updates that I post.
With its imminent release, the film has continued this week to receive a lot of attention in the media including Anne Thompson's piece at Indiewire from yesterday that discusses the reasons that the film could not have been made within the traditional studio environment. Also appearing this week we saw this post from Variety that focused on Amy Adams and the importance of communication as a part of the story of the film.
Arrival's IMDb page is here.
THR TALKS TO TELLER
Scott Feinberg continued his ongoing Awards Chatter podcast series at The Hollywood Reporter yesterday with a sit down with Bleed for This (77% at RT with only 13 reviews, TFF rates/ranks: Peeps: 3.41 #14, Pros: 2.71 #13, Comp: 6.12 #13) star Miles Teller. The true life boxing story opens next week (11/18).
The Post from THR includes a profile as well as the podcast and you can snag it here.
LA LA LANDS JOURNEY TO THE SCREEN
The Hollywood Reporter's Rebecca Ford wrote a fairly lengthy piece this week detailing the travails of the development of Damien Chazelle's Oscar favorite (at least for the time being) La La Land. La La Land is scheduled to open Dec. 16 and is set to play as part of the AFI Fest next week. It currently looks on track to reach double digit Oscar nominations and quite conceivably be the most nominated film of the year on Jan. 24th.
The film has had a very charmed run through the fall film festivals with a Best Actress prize for Emma Stone from Venice and the Audience Award from Toronto.
Click here to read the Ford article.
LOOKING TO 2017
Keep this on your radar for the next 10 months or so. Paramount will open Alexander Payne's Downsizing on Dec. 22, 2017. That puts it smack in the awards calendar window and also in a position to make the lineup for Telluride. Payne has become one of TFF's "Usual Suspects" over the last decade or so after having Guest Directed in 2009 he has since screened The Descendants (2011) and Nebraska (2013) at the fest. Downsizing stars Matt Damon and Kristen Wiig and tells the story of a man who chooses miniaturization as a solution to some of the issues in hos life.
Here's the Downsizing IMDb page link.
As well as the THR story that includes the release date news.
That's all she wrote for this Thursday. More on Monday. Have a good weekend!
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